Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/09/2026I am not part of society, but society need not worry for I will do everything myself and make this perfect. 131
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 11/09/2026Find me an economist who hasn’t “leveraged” every survey, piece of observational data, natural experiment, theory etc. that they’ve ever written about… 000
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ugh. Neither is further institutionalization what metascience needs as a field nor is a centralized metascience that issues science-wide mandates what sciences need. This kind of thing is something I've been strongly against even without an office of metascience at NSF. But I could see it coming. 13815
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The interventionist, top-down, efficiency-driven approach to science policy depresses me even without that power being abused by an authoritarian government that is deeply scared of science and scientists but is aware of and needs to exploit its rhetorical power in society. 02713
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 10/09/2026Further proof of my “Ottawa is just big Peterborough” theory 110
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 08/09/2026One thing in favour of Michael - his salary is revealed to be incredibly low as a major plot point. And, he does later take on a second job to make ends meet on his condo/duplex. 010
Reposted by Dean ShamessQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556448
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/09/2026Funny how only one of these can, unquestionably, be linked to some tangible harm caused by the “misconduct” too 081
Reposted by Dean ShamessICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Visit us at booth 316 at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference in Boston September 3-5! The swag is choice, and the exhibitors are nice! 😉 #SumProg #ICPSR #APSA2026 #PoliticalScience #SocialScience 021
Reposted by Dean ShamessZander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so... 12513
Reposted by Dean ShamessAngela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/ @mjacquart.bsky.social @metasciencejournal.bsky.social #philsci #scicomm �link.springer.comBook symposium: Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project (Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart)Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ... 15018
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 25/08/2026strangerthings.fandom.com/wiki/Eleven 11/10 (Complimentary)strangerthings.fandom.comElevenJane Hopper (born Jane Ives), also known as Eleven or El, is a main character in Stranger Things and its spin-off animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. She is portrayed by Millie Bobby Brow... 110
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 25/08/2026static.klipy.comMillie Bobby Millie Bobby BrownALT: Millie Bobby Millie Bobby Brown 110
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/08/2026Maybe it's just that references look like jank in their pdf parsing and then... something happens that makes that seem AI... doesn't inspire a tonne of confidence. 000
Reposted by Dean ShamessDietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“[LLM] use has increased rapidly and is associated with proposals that are less semantically distinctive from recently funded work. At NIH, such proposals are more likely to be funded and to yield more publications.” #AI #scipol #scicomm #trust www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgThe rise of large language models and the direction and impact of US federal research funding | PNASFederal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff... 032
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/08/2026There’s legit (ie not Hegseth-esque) video of him benching 315 … just sayin‘ for all the fans 000
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/08/2026Got an R&R at a good journal on a project that, at various times, has been described internally as “cursed”, “unfathomable disaster” and “definitely still cursed”. I assume by posting this the curse will return / the gods will punish my hubris. So that’s fun! 240
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 01/08/2026static.klipy.comMonkey Puppet Meme: Ummm You ListedALT: Monkey Puppet Meme: Ummm You Listed 010
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026Former climbing guide - this is one of the most important and difficult parts of climbing/guiding. There is a deep, inherent tension when climbing becomes a “service” that is 99.99% of the time well handled by clients, it all comes down to safety. The other times are horrible situations for all. 020
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026I dunno man, if I ran a $200bn business that largely sells tshirts, I probably wouldn’t mouth off about destroying democracy and equal rights… but ymmv I guess 🤷♀️ 020
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 27/07/2026As a still-Mac-mail user, it also does this…. And I find it absolutely absurd 200
Reposted by Dean ShamessTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The portal to Hell has been opened. End Times are near… 0122
Reposted by Dean ShamessJeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We develop a spatial competition model to explain spreading out: inventors ("you", below) choose locations in idea space. As the frontier expands and entry costs rise, they spread out — capturing larger territories, raising R&D investment and invention quality even as knowledge spillovers attenuate. 122
Reposted by Dean ShamessCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/20266. On a more serious note, I work a lot in the science of science. The report prominently claims that scientific breakthroughs are far rarer than they used to be, and concludes that this somehow the fault of the funding system. Such claims are egregious misrepresentations of the cited research. 548362
Reposted by Dean ShamessJennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I deleted my earlier estimate after finding an error in the code. The long list (18 pages) of affected goods is equivalent to just under 5% of Canadian goods imported into the US for consumption. That's not nothing, but it's not everything. Source for USTR data: dataweb.usitc.gov/trade/search...dataweb.usitc.govDataWeb 46230
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 19/07/2026Case in point (I know AoS isn’t “fantasy” to some of you… and also isn’t Fantasy™️ but cmon) 171
Reposted by Dean ShamessDaniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comNSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiativeA proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications. 14028
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 10/07/2026They’re really pushing me to also hate Fable because of its tone though. 010
Reposted by Dean Shamesslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today 974765686
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The more phil of science I read, and the more familiar I became with different pockets of the metascience community, the more I came to realize how little consensus there is about how to evaluate science. But I don’t blame those who default to thinking the metascientists have figured things out. 14312
Reposted by Dean ShamessBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Yet again www.nber.org/papers/w3535... 38128
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort. 111042
Reposted by Dean ShamessJaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Job opportunity!! Are you interested in studying new politicizations of science? And are you interested in how these politicizations could meaningfully be addressed in university education? Then we are looking for you! 🗓 Application deadline: 27 July 2026 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...uu.nlPhD: Understanding the politization of university knowledge and educationAre you passionate about understanding the growing politicization of science and how to address these topics in university education? 054
Reposted by Dean Shamessnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just now learning that raccoons are *legally permitted* to go through your trash 7305
Reposted by Dean ShamessElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Even knowing of the existence of Twitch streamers is an unfortunate state of being, to be vulgar enough to 'debate about them' on Bluesky.app takes one from tragedy to farce 0143
Reposted by Dean Shamessjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026walking is low key my favorite activity 66148334
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 26/05/20261) I clearly can't type while eating hotel buffet breakfast eggs... 2) As always, Rafe ends the post with an absolute banger! 3) John Wick rips, and rips for everyone, if you can just let it exist in your life for a couple hours. 010
Reposted by Dean ShamessRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I watched John Wick and I discovered that labour is capital’s dead wife. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...open.substack.comThings I like about watching John Wick in chronological orderThis does not quite do what it says on the tin but it’s close 7204
Reposted by Dean ShamessMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgProgression without progressProgress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t... 1421150